The first decades of the 21st century have been characterised by increasing urbanization and migration. The new multilingual realities are raising issues concerning sustainability, cultural identities and linguistic policies that deal with new challenges in the social and lingual environment.

“The Winter School will examine multilingualism and language contact in the European context and beyond. It will focus on less-taught languages, multilingual language practices, local multilingualism, multilingualism in organizations, multilingual spaces and language policies. However, the range of topics may also cover other aspects of multilingual language use, such as urbanization, migration and transnational language practices,” says project coordinator Tiina Tuominiemi.

The teaching languages of the Winter School are English, French, and German.

The Winter School is an excellent opportunity to network with researchers and students in your field.

The Winter School is open to undergraduate and PhD students conducting their studies related to multilingualism at the EC2U partner universities. It consists of common sessions (in English) and parallel sessions with presentations (in French and German), workshops, a hands-on session on linguistic landscape, a panel discussion and virtual sessions before and after the event.